Sean's simple drag racing gets replaced by a rubber-burning, automotive art form - with an exhilarating balance of speeding & gliding through a heart-stopping course of hairpin turns and switchbacks. Now officially a gaijin (outsider), Sean feels even more shut out in a land of foreign customs and codes of honour., but if doesn't take long for him to find some action when a fellow American buddy, Twinkie (Bow Wow), introduces him to the underground world of drift racing. To avoid jail time, Sean is sent to live with his gruff, estranged father, stationed in Tokyo. Although racing provides a temporary escape from an unhappy home and the superficial world around him, it has also made Sean unpopular with the local authorities. Sean Boswell (Black) is an outsider who attempts to define himself as a hot-headed, underdog street racer.
